Sergey Sazonov
Sergei Sazonov | |
|---|---|
Сергей Сазонов | |
Sergei Sazonov | |
| Foreign Minister of Russia | |
| In office 11 October 1910 – 20 July 1916 | |
| Monarch | Nicholas II |
| Prime Minister | Pyotr Stolypin Vladimir Kokovtsov Ivan Goremykin Boris Stürmer |
| Preceded by | Alexander Izvolsky |
| Succeeded by | Boris Stürmer |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 10 August 1860 Ryazan Governorate, Russia |
| Died | 11 December 1927 (aged 67) Nice, France |
| Spouse | Anna Borisovna von Neidhardt |
| Alma mater | Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum |
| Profession | Diplomat, Russian foreign minister |
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Sergei Dmitriyevich Sazonov GCB (Russian: Серге́й Дми́триевич Сазо́нов; 10 August 1860 – 11 December 1927) was a Russian statesman and diplomat who served as the foreign minister of Russia from November 1910 to July 1916. The degree of his involvement in the events leading up to the outbreak of World War I is a matter of keen debate, with some historians putting the blame for an early and provocative mobilization squarely on Sazonov's shoulders, and others maintaining that his chief preoccupation was "to reduce the temperature of international relations, especially in the Balkans".